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Whoever said there is no such thing as a free lunch never worked as a congressional intern.

Spending the summer of 1997 on Capital Hill, Gabriel Greenbaum helped handle the usual array of mundane-but-necessary chores for Rep. Jack Quinn of New York. "Nothing too exciting," said Greenbaum, who has risen to his own political heights as a three-year class president here at another prominent Hilltop, and in that role will address Commencement Friday, May 19.

"I did get to work across the hall from Sonny Bono, which was entertaining," Greenbaum noted.

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Jubilation! 139th Commencement to be held May 19

On Friday, May 19, 2,634 men and women will enter the Brookings Quadrangle as Washington University students and leave as alumni.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will award the degrees in the University's 139th Commencement ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. Of the 2,634 candidates, 1,327 are undergraduate students and 1,307 are graduate and professional students.

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Student designers reach out with posters

Typography, generally speaking, is not a hotbed of social activism. Unless, of course, you're talking to Sarah Spurr, coordinator of the Visual Communications Area at the School of Art, who regularly teaches a section on graphic design as a tool for social change.

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Public consortium launches final phase of genome sequencing

The Human Genome Project international consortium has announced the official launch of the second and final phase of the human genome sequencing project -- the effort to decipher the 3 billion DNA letters that make the human body.

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